System Monitoring with Checkmk - Part 2: Advanced Topics [English]
Have you attended our first course System Monitoring with Checkmk - Part 1: Basics already, or have comparable knowledge through practical experience? Then the second part of our Checkmk training is just right for you!
Our 5 day advanced training will introduce you to many exciting topics around monitoring with Checkmk and beyond. We also share best practices and advanced methods - such as Checkmk on the command line. We use OMD - the Open Monitoring Distribution as a platform. OMD simplifies installation and updates of the entire monitoring ecosystem greatly and offers further advantages such as professional, globally standardized system integration and multi-instance capabilities. An important part concerns the architecture of the monitoring system. Here we discuss distributed monitoring - installations with more than one monitoring server. We show you how you can build a central configuration with WATO, how to monitor security areas (eg. DMZ, internet servers) safely, and discuss advantages and disadvanages of the possible architectures. As well as the established Checkmk Event Console, we present new topics such as reporting and hardware/software inventory.
Remark: If you do not yet have practical experience with Checkmk , our basic training System Monitoring with Checkmk - Part 1: Basics is better suited for you.
Course content
OMD – The Open Monitoring Distribution
- omd diff,
- Backup with
omd backupandomd restore
Checkmk on the command line
- Working with the
cmkcommand - Overview of the file system – what is stored where,
- Editing config files by hand
- Reading log files
Advanced features of Checkmk
- Simulating complex environments on a test system
- Monitoring clusters with and without a service IP address
- Manage hosts automatically with the WATO web API
- Installing and configuring agents manually
- Fetching cache files
The Checkmk Micro Core
- Architecture and advantages of the CMC
- Differences when changing the monitoring core
Architecture of distributed monitoring
- Distributed monitoring with Livestatus
- LQL = Livestatus Query Language
- The Livestatus Proxy Daemon
- Central configuration management with WATO
BI – Business Intelligence
- Representing business processes with Checkmk BI
- Rules that discover applications automatically
- BI in distributed monitoring
- Turning BI aggregations into 'normal' checks
The Event Console
- Difference between states and events
- Setup and configuration of the Event Console
- Connecting Syslog, SNMP Traps and log files
- Structure and features of event rules
- How to respond to events from an operating perspective
- Automatic and manual triggering of actions
- The Event Console in distributed monitoring
Reporting
- Availability evaluation with Checkmk
- Introduction to the Checkmk reporting module
- Using instant reports
- Static page elements such as logos, page numbers etc.
- Views, PNP Graphs and availability tables
Hardware-/Software inventory
- Extending the Checkmk agent with the inventory plugin
- How Checkmk collects information about hardware and software from hosts
- Representing inventory data tree-like and in table form
- Exporting data to other systems
User management via LDAP
- Introduction to the LDAP module
- Connecting Active Directory and OpenLDAP
- Mapping LDAP groups to contact groups and roles
- Mapping of other attributes
- search filters
Monitoring in practice
- Monitoring Oracle
- Monitoring ESX
Extending Checkmk
- Short introduction to developing custom checks
- Inventory plugins
- Writing custom notification scripts
Details
Language: English
Length: 5 days
Minimum n.o. of attendees: 3
Target audience: Checkmk Administrators
Requirements: Knowledge from part 1 or comparable Basics knowledge of the Linux command line
Price 01/07/2020 - 31/12/2020
€2,726.00 (incl. VAT)
Price after 01/01/2021 €2,796.50 (incl. VAT)
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